HotAir Daily Express 10/06/2016

[Hot Air Daily Express] [Follow us on Facebook] [Home][Green Room][Archive][The Ed Morrissey Show][Print][Forward] [FL governor as Hurricane Matthew approaches: “This storm will kill you”] 10/6/2016 10:01:24 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “If you’re in the evacuation area,” Governor Rick Scott told his fellow Floridians this morning, “get out.” Warning of the impact of Hurricane Matthew, Scott predicted that “this storm will kill you,” and [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [I suppose we might as well blame the NFL’s troubles on Trump too] 10/6/2016 9:31:40 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments If you checked in with the mainstream media over the past couple of months you would be led to believe that Donald Trump is the cause of most of the country’s ills these days. Despite never having served a day in any elected office, signed a single [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giving Thanksgiving back: America’s largest mall goes old-school on holiday] 10/6/2016 9:01:16 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments And by “old school,” I mean closed. Bucking a trend in recent years that has pushed Black Friday back into Thanksgiving Thursday, the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota has decided to stick to the calendar. They will shut down [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Justice Department drops charges in case that could have exposed Hillary’s Benghazi/gun running connections] 10/6/2016 8:31:04 AM Larry O'Connor 0 Comments The Department of Justice has dropped charges against an American man they said illegally supplied arms to Libyan rebels during the actions that led to the ouster and death of Muammar Qaddafi while Hillary CLinton was Secretary of State. The DOJ says [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Another American actor makes nice with a socialist tyrant] 10/6/2016 8:01:28 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments When we hear stories about a high dollar American celebrity becoming buddies with a controversial and dangerous foreign leader, the first name to come to mind is usually Dennis Rodman and his rather unusual relationship with North Korea’s [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [No, Trump’s cameos in “Playboy” videos don’t matter] 10/5/2016 10:41:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To whom, exactly, are they supposed to matter? Evangelicals gave up caring about things like this when they voted en masse to nominate Trump. The spectacle of Trump the twice-divorced ladies’ man bedding down beautiful women has been a core part of [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Is Mike Pence the frontrunner for the nomination in 2020 if Trump loses?] 10/5/2016 10:01:31 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I keep seeing this point made today in the wake of Pence’s debate win. I do not understand it. If the GOP ends up a hybrid party that marries Trumpism w/ trad conservatism, who's better positioned than Mike Pence to carry the banner? — [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Republicans looking at ‘a dozen’ ways to block Obamacare bailout] 10/5/2016 9:21:00 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The Hill has a follow-up report on attempts by Republicans in Congress to block the bailout of insuers under Obamacare’s risk corridors program: GOP lawmakers say they are looking at “a dozen” options — including a possible provision in the [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Quinnipiac: GOP still strong in key Senate battleground races, but …] 10/5/2016 8:41:05 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments The good news: The latest results from Quinnipiac show Republicans leading or at least not trailing in four states that Democrats thought they could win in this presidential cycle. The bad news: At least two of those four races have noticeably tightened, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House: Let’s add a new racial category to the census for Middle-Eastern people] 10/5/2016 8:01:59 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yes, this seems to be the latest genius plan coming out of the White House. For the 2020 census we may be breaking out yet another group of people by ethnicity to further separate the population into individual pigeonholes. This time the goal is to [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Belgian police officers stabbed in suspected terror attack] 10/5/2016 7:21:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Two police officers were stabbed in the Belgian neighborhood of Schaerbeek today. A spokesman for the prosecutor said it was a possible terror-related attack. From the Guardian: A 43-year old Belgian man stabbed one officer in the neck and the other in [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [37 million viewers: Audience for VP debate was smallest since 2000, less than half of first presidential debate] 10/5/2016 6:41:23 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A minor bummer for Pence given his strong performance, but the ratings downturn from 2012 was probably inevitable. This was the first veep debate since 2000 to feature two politicians with low public profiles. In 2004 Cheney was the sitting VP; four [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yahoo searching your emails: another view] 10/5/2016 6:01:15 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier today, Ed dove into the recent story about Yahoo agreeing to search their users’ emails and report suspicious activity to the government. A story like this is bound to have privacy advocates up in arms because it clearly has some troubling [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The obligatory “Watters World in Chinatown” clip] 10/5/2016 5:31:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The media is treating it as a hate crime but the greatest offense is to comedy, I think. If you’re going to play with racial stereotypes, why would you do it for gags this lame? The next four interviews are just interviews, featuring several [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [7-year-old tells bus driver her parents won’t wake up, police find them dead of drug overdose] 10/5/2016 5:01:51 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A 7-year-old girl in McKeesport, Pennsylvania got on the bus and went to school as normal Monday morning, but on the way home she told her bus driver she hadn’t been able to wake her parents. The bus driver alerted police who responded to the home. [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Moderation: Pence managed to win a three-person debate, eh?] 10/5/2016 4:31:49 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If you missed last night’s debate, the RNC has a 271-second distillation of it. For most viewers, the biggest impression of the event came from Tim Kaine’s constant interruptions and interjections. The RNC counted 72 of them, but it felt like [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [New York AG doesn’t show as much interest in Clinton Foundation as Trump charity] 10/5/2016 4:01:08 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Earlier this week Allahpundit reported on the loud and proud hammer which New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman brought down on Donald Trump’s charitable foundation (the Trump Foundation) in the Empire State. A cease and desist order was [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hmmm: Clinton by two — in Ohio?] 10/5/2016 3:31:26 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A nice example of why data nerds are forever insisting that polling averages are worth more of your time and interest than any individual poll. Outliers are built into any sample, and this new Monmouth survey of Ohio feels very outlier-ish. The only way [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [IG Report: Wait times persist at Phoenix VA, may have contributed to one death] 10/5/2016 3:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A new report by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General finds that staff at the Phoenix VA continue to inappropriately cancel medical appointments and that in one case failure to make an appointment may have contributed to a [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did the FBI catch Snowden 2.0?] 10/5/2016 2:31:58 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Perhaps the NSA needs to keep a closer eye on its contractors. Three years after Edward Snowden absconded with highly classified materials and embarrassed the agency and the Obama administration with revelations about domestic and foreign surveillance, [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Federal sharpshooters are getting ready to gun down more than 500 deer in Maryland] 10/5/2016 2:01:18 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I hope you’ll excuse the use of the phrase “gun down” in the title, but in this instance it’s literally the case. At two national parks in Maryland they are heading into what may prove to be a particularly brutal winter with an [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [CNN snap poll: Mike Pence won the debate] 10/5/2016 1:31:42 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments The overall margin was 48/42 in Pence’s favor, but this is the number that matters: Sixty-two percent of Republicans said Pence’s performance made them more likely to vote for Trump. If the debate helped at all, that’s probably where [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clinton campaign tries to spin Bill Clinton’s attack on Obamacare] 10/5/2016 1:01:47 PM John Sexton 0 Comments A spokesman for the Clinton campaign offered up some laughable spin on former President Bill Clinton’s attack on Obamacare. From Politico: “President Clinton said as, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine believe, there’s so much good the Affordable Care [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Debate points to ponder: Can a Catholic be pro-life and support abortion on demand?] 10/5/2016 12:31:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Short answer: not really, and it’s no coincidence that it’s also the long answer. Perhaps the most intriguing — and relatively orderly — part of last night’s vice presidential debate came at the very end, when moderator [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Obama decries people who “blame me and my tree hugger friends” for loss of coal jobs] 10/5/2016 12:01:26 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Coming soon to probably more theaters than a “documentary” such as this merits is a new movie from Leonardo DiCaprio titled, Before the Flood. As you might be able to guess just from the title, it’s a lengthy sermon on anthropogenic [More...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Humans won’t ever live far beyond 115 years] [Report: Private polling by GOP, Dems shows sharp downturn for Trump in key battleground states] [U.S. admits record number of Muslim refugees in 2016] [Gary Johnson: Moral equivalence between U.S. in Afghanistan and Assad in Syria] [It’s on: Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity in war of words] [Clowns form “Clown Lives Matter” to combat profiling after string of attacks] [The rise of the “bromosexual” friendship] [If my candidate is behind, the poll must be biased] [Do commas still matter?] [Hillary Clinton’s lonesome white male supporters] [Ed Morrissey Show] [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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